Neo-Hegelians: Caird, Bradley

J. B. Baillie. "The Origin & Significance of Hegel's Logic". London. 1901. (375 pp.)*. Review in "Revue Philosophique", 1902, 2, p. 312. He allegedly not only repeats Hegel's terms (as Vera does), but tries to trace and explain them historically. Among other things, Chapter X: the relation of logic to nature (Hegel allegedly did not achieve his goal). The significance of Hegel, [in Baillie's view,] is that he "proved the objective character of cognition"... (p. 314).

William Wallace. "Prolegomena to the Study of Hegel's Philosophy & Especially of His Logic". Oxford & London**. 1894. Review in "Revue Philosophique". 1894, 2, p. 538. 2nd edition, 1st in 1874. The author translated Hegel's Logic.

"Mr. Wallace expounds with complete precision Hegel's understanding of this science (logic)... a science which subordinates to itself both the philosophy of nature and the philosophy of mind, insofar as pure thought, or the Idea, appears as the common foundation of both material reality and the psychical" (540).

His 1894? translation of "Philosophy of Mind". Review ibid.

A laudatory but empty review of Wallace in "Zeitschrift für Philosophie".

P. Rotta. "La renaissance de Hegel et «la philosophia perennis»"*** in the Italian "Rivista di Filosofia"

* - J. B. Baillie. "The Origin and Significance of Hegel's Logic". London. 1901. (375 pp.). Ed.
** - William Wallace. "Introduction to the Study of Hegel's Philosophy and Especially of His Logic". Oxford and London. Ed.
*** - P. Rotta. "The Renaissance of Hegel and 'the Perennial Philosophy'". Ed.

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Rotta is a follower of Caird. Seems like nil.

Among other things... "the neo-Hegelian conception of Bradley of invisible energy, which manifests itself constantly, present and acting in all changes and in each individual action"

J. Grier Hibben. "Hegel's Logic, an Essay in Interpretation". New York. 1902. (313 p.)*.

Review in "Revue Philosophique", 1904, vol. I, p. 430:

"Contrary to its title, Mr. H.'s work does not at all provide clarifying notes, but is an almost literal résumé".

The author compiled something like a dictionary of terms in Hegel's Logic. But allegedly that is not the point: "Commentators are still disputing about the very position Hegel took, about the fundamental meaning and real purpose of his dialectic. To the celebrated critical articles of Seth are opposed new interpretations, which give to the Logic, taken as a whole, an entirely different meaning, particularly the interpretations of McTaggart and J. Noel" (431).

In Hibben's view, Hegel's Logic is "not a simple speculative system, more or less learned combination of abstract concepts; it is at the same time an interpretation of universal life in all the fullness of its concrete significance" (p. 430).

"Preussische Jahrbücher"

idealist interpretation of energy??

The review's author

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* - J. Grier Hibben. "Hegel's Logic, an Essay in Interpretation". New York. 1902. (313 pp.). Ed.
** - Dr. Ferd. J. Schmidt. "Hegel and Marx". Ed.

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